CareerPlan

Performance Modeling Engineer

San FranciscoFull-time2026-04-20 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid · United States

Core

Develop and apply performance modeling frameworks to evaluate AI system behavior, quantify tradeoffs, and inform next-generation infrastructure design.

Role type

Performance Modeling Engineer

Builds

Performance modeling tools and frameworks for AI system architecture

Domain

AI infrastructure, system architecture, hardware/software co-design

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

software engineering, systems modeling, performance analysis, programming, building technical tools, reasoning about performance bottlenecks, quantitative modeling

Preferred skills

AI/ML workloads, distributed systems, simulation tools, data center infrastructure, benchmarking, profiling tools

Technologies

simulation tools, performance modeling tools, profiling tools

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain performance modeling tools and frameworks; Build models to evaluate system behavior across compute, memory, and interconnect subsystems; Run simulations and analytical models to support architectural tradeoff analysis; Collaborate with performance modeling lead and system architects to answer forward-looking design questions; Analyze and interpret modeling outputs, translating results into actionable insights; Validate models against real system measurements and workload behavior

Seniority

Individual Contributor